do your thinking with your head, not with your emotion.
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japan is not wealthy at all. japan has world's largest sovereign indebtness and its per capita job holder debt is estimated to be $145,000 and by 2016, that would become about 300% of the G7 average. they look wealthy to you because that's very superficial view of japan, japan in fact is broke.
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with its 57 nuke reactors japan has been hording bomb grade plutonium material from spent fuel of these nuke reactors. some japanese openly said they can turn out bombs in less than 3 months notice.

Not sure I am bought into the thesis that the Chinese are playing along with Resolution 2087 to look flexible, in compensation for stands over the sea of China or the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands.
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I do think the value of South Korea to China as a trading partner will be a decisive factor for spurring China on to take a stronger stance against certain North Korean behaviors.
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Also, China probably doesn't like the idea of nuclear blasts/tests going of in its neighborhood, even if conducted underground.
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Otherwise, if North Korea collapsed, I don't think any US troops would cross the border. I suspect only South Korean troops would push above the 38th parallel. The Americans may provide air transport, intelligence, and some rear area logistical support, but I think Korean nationalism would preclude American troops getting involved on the ground.
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Of course it all depends on what is meant by "collapse:"
Military coup?
Mass protests/strikes?
A successful Kwanju style uprising in the capital/major cities?
All of the above?

What if North and South Korea became unified in the style of East and West Germany when the Berlin Wall fell down and became a stronger economic power-house in the style of modern-day Germany? Would China want such event? - hardly.

Well if the North and South became unified like Germany, then outside powers would be involved in cutting deals.
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So I think South Korea and the US would have to come to terms with China.
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If the Chinese were creative, they could demand the Americans stay south of the 38 parallel at a minimal, in the near term, and eventual withdrawal of American troops within a time frame over the long term.
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Factors of self-interest for China would be stability on its border, and a closer, richer economic relationship with the S. Korean government, and eventual removal of an American presence.
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Otherwise, I don't think there would be a similar unification. My suspicion is it would represent more of a confederation, or country of two systems.
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Aside from symbolic family reunions I think both the Chinese and South Koreans will want to keep the North Korean population in place (assisted by US food aid and what not to provision rations).
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Then North Korea would be turned into a giant special economic zone for the Chaebol and Chinese firms. For labor intensive industries for the former, minerals and wood for the latter.
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Then eventually the currency would be replaced, and a special kind of hujo system for North Korea would be relaxed as stability returns, the economy of the north takes off and living standards rise.

Following the growth of china economy, now china want to build good international relationship or find good ally. There are some territorial disputes around china. So it really embarrassment to China and How to find a good ally is serious problem for china. Of course, the relationship between china and North Korea is fine. But now North Korea is a not positive ally to china. So it make china embarrassing again. Both china and North Korea has recognized it. To north Korea, the effect of china will be weak.

I wish I were so optimistic. If the North collapses Beijing will want to ensure NK refugees do not flee en mass into China, and that Korea is not unified under the SK (pro-US) government.
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The only sure way to accomplish both is for China to send troops South to the 38th.
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Then NK will be a province of China and the stand-off across the 38th will continue.
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imho China is unlikely to tolerate SK troops moving North of the 38th, because they assume SK and US troops are for all intents and purposes, the same.

If a "complete collapse" comes about, somehow, leaving a vacuum in North Korea, the South Koreans will move north.
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Nothing will stop them in such a scenario. The Chinese will not likely be able to get as far as the 38th without really blowing relations with the South.
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The key question for a scenario of converging forces would be:
Who gets to Pyongyang first, and beyond, and how?
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Then there is the question of Korean nationalism, which the Northern communists also cultivate a dose of I believe (thought there was a heavy strain of that with all the juche indoctrination?).
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Would those in the north want to become a veritable province of China? How sustainable would such an arrangement be for the Chinese leadership?

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Then North Korea would be turned into a giant special economic zone for the Chaebol and Chinese firms. For labor intensive industries for the former, minerals and wood for the latter.
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Then eventually the currency would be replaced, and a special kind of hujo system for North Korea would be relaxed as stability returns, the economy of the north takes off and living standards rise.]

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And NK could turn itself into the largest holder of US treasury bonds. Who knows? ;-)

Well actually those casual thoughts all hinge on hypothetical situations.
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At the end of the day, we don't know what we don't know.
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In all likelihood the North Korean situation may remain for some time like the ending of Animal Farm, the novel; not like the movie ending.

However, your assumption that a unified Korea under Southern leadership would be automatically pro-US (just like that, blanket 'pro-US' everything?) is also optimistic, provided you are American.

It seems just as likely to me that a unified Korea, as it steps up a level in regional economic and military power, might just ask us to leave. After all, our sociopaths in uniform have been just as busy in raping high school girls near our bases in Korea as they have in Okinawa, haven't they?

I just laid out some scenarios and possibilities.
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I didn't give any opinion on likelihood of such scenarios coming to pass.
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Agree that an unified Korea under the South would likely assume a more independent posture from the US (possibly move towards a neutral stance)
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I think the Itaewan base in Seoul at least has Hooker Hill to keep the restless diverted. I say "think" because I have never been there myself (just went to the nearby War Museum).

China's leadership HAS NEVER forgotten the GREAT FOLLY of Secretary Gorbachev in letting the Berlin Wall come down and set the stage for the END OF COMMUNISM in Europe. On the SAME day that Solidarity won free elections and took power in Poland, China's overlords bloodied their hands ( and then some) in Tienanmen Square. That explains EVERYTHING involving China and North Korea. When China is ready for a Big Change, Pyongyang ( or the Non-totalitarian elements in North Korea's Power Elite) will get the nod for unification.

If NK becomes docile and gradually assimilate with the south, the Koreans as a whole will see less reasons for the Americans to be stationed there, Koreans are extremely nationalistic. Once the North is not a threat, the Koreans will turn their full attention against Japan.

In the medium term a unified Korea is better for China than for USA, China will have a common enemy against Japan. In the long term however a unified Korea might be a potential threat to China, nationalistic neighbors are always bad business, especially so if they are rich and nuclear capable.

If China continue to keep NK as a buffer, then it will forever have US presence not very far away

Ultimately the best strategy for China is to slowly build its relation with US, there is much differences but not impossible to overcome.

I think, and most of my neighbors think, that the Chinese people are marvelous, intelligent, hardworking, and incredibly cultured.

I personally think that your government has some flaws, but also has some strengths. The US government also has its strengths and weaknesses. Unfortunately, when it comes to government, China and the US have very very different philosophies, and we tend to misunderstand each other.

Its beautiful and traditionally the people are very much liked by Americans. I would value owning a current Lenovo laptop. Im not being patronizing.

Also, Im not familiar with Chinese high technology but I'm sure it is becoming a high technology nation like its neighbors.

I remember that James Cameron's 'Avatar' was said to be much influenced by scenic mountain places in China. And, I do bthink tourism business will be rising soon--if not already--as China seems very much to be a great vacation destination.

As an American who lives, works, and has started a family in China; I must say that China is truly an amazing land and the most incredible place I have ever visited. It is an ancient empire rapidly turning into a modern superpower. The diversity of the landscapes across its vast lands are rivaled only by the USA, but they are blessed with historical depth that exceed Europe's. China's humanistic philosophical background allow it to preseve tradition and family values (avoiding the post-modern nihilism spreading in parts of Europe) while embracing secularism and science. The food is great to.

Not when it comes at the expense of freedom of speech, intolerable pollution, runaway corruption, banned web sites and geo-political instability caused by adventurism in Senkakus, Spratlys, Tibet, Arunachal Pradesh etc. China's current course of development is totally unsustainable.

The "adventure" in Tibet ended 50 years ago. The petty disputes over islands don't qualify as adventures or as anything above petty chatter. You might as well condemn South Korea for adventurism because of its island disputes with Japan. All of the countries involved are just catering to their own nationalists.
American intervention into Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya was adventurism and has done far more to cause instability by any possible measure.

China could be doing a better job with pollution, but pollution is an unavoidable part of rapid industrialization. The corruption in China is no worse than in other countries of a comparable level of development, and it is so deep rooted in the culture that I can't blame the government officials for engaging in the same type of behavior that all of the other citizens engage in.

Banned web sites are unimportant when the vast majority of the population do not have computers (but who are thankfully gaining access to them thanks to rapid economic growth). The Chinese should have more freedom of speech and some of the restrictions are unjustifiable, but that fault (and it is most certainly a fault) pales before China's virtues.

Look at China's corruption perception index. It is in the average range for countries with a similar HDI: Roughly equal to Mexico, Colombia, and Thailand. Somewhat worse than Brazil and Turkey. Somewhat better than Russia or Iran.

If you only want to single out the corruption at the top without taking into context the size of the economy, compare the $2.7 billion of Wen Jiabao's family to the far greater ill-gotten gains of Mexico's Carlos Slim or Russia's oligarchs. Which of these individuals do you think has contributed the most to their country and humanity as a whole?

We should also clarify the apparent nature of the corruption:
Wen Jiabao used his power and connections to provide opportunities and special advantages to his relatives.
That's what every Chinese family does to the best of its ability insofar as their power and connections allow. Almost everyone benefits from this in someway and this permeates both the public and private sector. This seems corrupt from a western perspective, but this behavior is promoted by Confucianism ("love with distinctions") and is generally socially acceptable.
Lower level families with less connections understandably complain about the corruption of the better connected upper level families, but likewise help their relatives to the best of their ability when given the chance.

Afghanistan wasn't an intervention, it was an invasion based on a premise of self defense, as in the government there was hosting a leadership team that established a track record of attacking Americans (E. Africa embassy bombings, the Cole, and then 911).
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Sorry to get a litte off topic, but I believe that example of adventurism should be placed in context.
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Otherwise, I think certain Europeans were more anxious (or equally so) to intervene in Libya.

Israel is not an apartheid regime. The occupied territories are self governing. In fact, if Arabs had not attacked Israel from these very territories, they would be part of Jordan and Egypt still today. It doesn't do anyone any good to treat the issue as black and white.

The occupied territories are "self governing". They are not, however, actually free. They don't, for instance, have the ability to stop Israel from stealing more and more of their land every year.
Though yes, while I do find Israel pretty nasty, they're not even in the same league as the DPRK when it comes to level of evil. The original analogy, that the DPRK is to China as Israel is to the USA, however, is pretty true (which becomes partly a comment on anti-Americanism, I guess. We just have to support kinda nasty people to get hated by a large chunk of the world. China supports a country which keeps families in what are essentially death camps based on the "crimes" of distant relations, and most of the world kinda shrugs at it. Even when said country lets it's people starve while building nuclear weapons.)

I certainly don't give the Israelis a free pass on their actions. However, as a critically minded person, I can't look at their situation and imagine a clear solution. The Palestinians used violence and terrorism for years to achieve their ends, and so are largely responsible for weaving the web that they've now stuck in. Today even, one half of the Palestinian government (Hamas) refuses to accept even the mere existence of Israel.
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Negotiated peace with the Palestinians won't be easy. They want one-half of Jerusalem for starters, removal of settlers, and the right of Palestinians to return to Israel. It's hard to imagine many pragmatic Israelis preferring that to the current status quo. It's also difficult to imagine a Palestinian state with anything less.
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The two-state solution may ultimately prove a non-starter. In fact, it's a bit silly to try to make an imaginary state out of two unconnected landmasses on the border of Israel. If I may suggest a politically-incorrect solution: return to the 1967 borders. Meaning, the West Bank rejoins Jordan and Gaza is again part of Egypt. Mostly autonomous provinces, of course. We have to think outside of the box in order to solve this problem, and it has to benefit both groups of people.

"It is said Americas concerns are shifting away from Israel to the Indian subcontinent."
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I think the situation between Japan and China, China and SEAsia, and North and South Korea are uppermost in the Pentagon's mind right now.
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Hence Obama's 'pivot' to South East Asia. India/Pakistan is only a problem for India/Pakistan, if they set to slaughtering each other the only people who will notice are the Indians/Pakistanis.
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If South East and East Asia set to slaughtering each other world trade will come to a halt, since it will involve numbers 1,2, and 3 in the world economy: US, China, Japan, plus a host of smaller nations such as Korea, Malaysia, Vietnam etc. In effect, it will be WW3.
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India/Pakistan is a chronic disease, not an acute one.

interesting catch 22 here - China doesn't like our (US) troops so close to them in South Korea and so keeps the North afloat as a buffer, but US troops are there primarily to protect the South from the North since the war never really ended. Were the US and China to agree to dispense with the Kims, I suspect the war would end quickly and US troops would no longer have a reason to remain in Korea. A little short term instability in exchange for long term stability and security.

China is not very rational on this. Dirt poor North Korea does not provide an effective buffer area either to ground based invasion. The chinese generals must know that the US could roll a ground based force through north korea in no time if it so desired.

Let history be our guide. Remember that China crossed the Yalu river into North Korea as McArthur's UN forces went North, driving the defeated North Koreans before them.
China assumed that McArthur was a threat to China although he was under strict instructions from Eisenhower not to cross the Yalu. But the fact remains that China entered the war against UN forces, and launched an unprovoked attack into Korea.
That is why US forces remain on the 38th paralell, in case of a second unprovoked attack.

Which is why I said if the US and PRC come in from opposite sides (South and North respectively) and unseat li'l Kim the reason for US troops in Korea goes away. I think China just doesn't want to deal with the short term mess this would create.

I disagree. If the N.Korean regime collapses China will freak in case the South tries to stabilize the situation (and re-unite Korea) by sending a "peace-keeping" force into the North.
Whether or not this force includes Americans won't matter to China, they don't distinguish between S.Koreans and Americans. And they don't want US troops on the Yalu river again.
So if N.Korea collapses China will send troops South to the 38th Paralell.
If they meet S.Korean/US troops going North, the Korean war will re-start.
Otherwise Chinese and S.Korean/US troops will face off across the 38th Paralell.
If US troops aren't defending the 38th, China might decide to carry on South and re-unite Korea under communist rule.
That is why US troops have been in Korea for 60 years, and why they will remain there for the next 60.

The balance of power you describe is not the only reason the US maintains a military presence in the region. And with the ever increasing Chinese belligerence and expansion there is even less motivation for the US to loose the pretence of maintaining stabilization on the peninsula as a reason for keeping troops and other military assets there.

South Korea is still there, so don't think the war was lost 60 years ago.
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Espeicially considering the unprovoked invasion by North Korea with Chinese and Soviet backing, followed up by a Chinese invasion.
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You forgot, the US didn't arm the South Koreans with tanks other heavy, offensive weapons in 1949 (when it ended its occupation). The Soviets did arm the North Koreans with tanks (T-34s), provided advisors, drew up invasion plans, while China repatriated Korean volunteers to the PLA, in 1949 and 1950.

That's precisely what I was thinking. Perhaps future American and Chinese governments can come to an accommodation. Eventual removal of American forces from Korea in exchange for Chinese support for reunification under a S. Korean model.

Read up on the history of North Korea and United States and compare what has transpired in these two countries in the years from the korean war up until now. That is much more relevant for understanding the current situation.

What is keeping the North Korean regime safe now is two things:
1 Lack of political will to do anything, that would cost something, about them on the part of US , South Korea and China.
2 North Korea can cause a lot of blodshed in South Korea even if the outcome of a conflict is certain defeat.

actually it is not as reasy as US ground troops have acheieved in Iraq.
North Korea is much better than Iraq when it comes to ground force. And china will never let it happen, if US desired .The only outcome is another Korean war with huge death of Korean, Chinese and American soilders

China has warned that it could pull its aid if North Korea doesn’t tone down its acts of belligerence and drop plans for another nuclear test.
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But Pyongyang has warned of ‘strong physical counter-measures’ against South Korea if the country takes a ‘direct part’ in US-backed sanctions recently passed at the UN.
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Further bellicose statements were issued warning of imminent rocket launches and a third nuclear test targeting the United States. Those remarks, issued a day earlier, were given by the National Defence Commission, headed by North Korea’s new leader, Kim Jong-Un.
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Though China has long been a supporter of North Korea in the region, providing energy and food aid, China has signalled its frustration with Pyongyang retorting that, ‘If North Korea engages in further nuclear tests, China will not hesitate to reduce its assistance to North Korea.’ However, China also went on to say that if the US, Japan and South Korea decide to promote extreme UN sanctions on North Korea China would resolutely force amendments to those draft resolutions – this, despite China saying that it supported tightening sanctions against North Korea after its December missile launch.
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That launch was considered North Korea’s most successful to date. Debris analysed after the launch indicate North Korea is attempting to develop technology needed to mount a nuclear warhead on a missile capable of reaching Hawaii and, perhaps even after further development, the United States.
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American intelligence of the Punggye research and test site in north-eastern North Korea indicates that preparative activity for a third nuclear test is underway. Because the test site is underground, spy satellite data is not a reliable predictor of exactly when a test might take place.

I can understand China's desire to keep th N. Korean buffer between South Korea and her own border. While I don't see a real chance of a US China war in the near future, it would still be uncomfortable for China to have American soldiers on its borders. Even if the US left a unified Korea, the US simply having easy access through a close ally on China's border would be uncomfortable. This would be no different than how the US would feel if China had trooops and bases in Mexico.
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So essentially China likes having N. Korea acting as a guard dog against the US on the Korean penninsula. But a guard dogs only job when no one is actually in its yard is to simply bark a lot and show it is a threat only if someone actualy comes inside the fence. If instead you guard dog goes outside its yard and starts attacking people, sooner or later someone is going to be justified in coming into the yard and shooting your dog.
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So let's look at N. Korea's actions lately - violating UN sanctions which even China has signed, shelling a S. Korean island resulting in deaths of S. Korean citizens, sinking a S. Korean ship causing deaths of S. Korean navy personnel, etc. This is a guard dog which is out of control. So if China wants to keep its guard dog, then it is time put it on short chain and muzzle it. If it does this, then it can keep doing its job to keep the US military from having direct access to China's border. If China does not do this, then at some point S. Korea and the US will likey act to shoot the dog, and China will find its lack of action has led to exactly the situation it hoped to avoid.

Silly sceanario. At some point in the future, china would have the largest economy in the world in USD not PPP. Any body who threathen 1.4 billion chinese armed with nukes and having the largest economy in the world has got to be mad as a hatter.

It is important to note that should North Korea fold and unification between the South and the North be achieved, there may be no reason for United States troops on the peninsula at all, something that China should embrace. Perhaps that can be an agreement point that China and the United States can reach?

I have to commend the Chinese and Japanese leadership for their acknowledgement of their political crisis and thoughtful effort to reduce tension by way of meetings between top leaders. Stubbornness is one of the most damaging things to people and countries everywhere, and refusing to back down in order to protect one's ego and save one's face is a detriment to progress anywhere. Bridging the gap between Japan and China is in both of their interests, and that ought to be applauded, because I sure as hell know that our leadership in the United States will never have the guts to admit, "Hey, I might be wrong. Let me hear what you have to say and maybe we can come to a compromise".

I've yet to hear the Japanese or Chinese leaders state they have been wrong either. They lowered tensions but China has not backed off any claim to the right to be within what Japan considers it's territory nor has Japan stopped sending military flights to intercept any Chinese presence in the area.

There is certainly no lack of hubris on the side of some US leaders. But they are certainly not the worst in the world in this regard and they are certainly no worse than the leadership of China and Japan.

Seriously. Have you ever tried to browse the Chinese Microblog/chatter world? You would need an army of censors bigger than the entire U.S Federal Government to clean it up.

Out of millions of bloggers, they pick one, and suddenly that represent all of China.

Should foreigners (Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Europeans) believe American outlook based on one of two bloggers like you or I? Or worse, Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin represent the official views of the American people?

You don't need an army of censors. You merely need the self-censorship of intimidated bloggers. Have many online dissidents has China jailed? The United States has free and open commentary online, so opinions very widely. China does not.
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If you're uncomfortable with the fact that anonymous bloggers online are erroneously assumed to represent the views of the Chinese government or the country as a whole, then perhaps you should direct your criticism towards the oppressive government in question.

The Chinese are not 'Kung Fu Panda', certainly, or are they in the Korean Peninsula? The Chinese do not engage in any diplomatic exchange with South Korea. They are actually asking the North Koreans not to engage the South Koreans, negatively, just perhaps. Or, most likely, they discuss South Korea not at all, in a manner, where the North Koreans are enthused to ideas of war.

China has many competing interests and finds it hard to maintain each of them to their maximum benefit, so it is constantly evaluating 'this' against 'that'.
Geopolitically, China not so much wants to be a world superpower, as much as it wants to be the Superpower of all Asia--much in the way that the U.S. held sway in the West for the last 70 years, but with more menace.
China hats NOTHING more than the fact that the U.S. has a presence in the Taiwan Straits (or whatever China calls them) and also in South Korea, a Southern and Northern point of their continent that in China's paranoid view, weakens them in the region.
A best solution to the interest of everyone would be an agreement between the U.S. and China that China will help orchestrate the demise of the Kim dynasty and the reunification of the two Koreas, to be followed by the withdrawal of all U.S. troops and military from the new reunified nation. China would likely also insist on the withdrawal of the U.S. navy from the taiwan straits, but the U.S. would not have to give in on this point.
This kind of arrangement would acknowledge several new realities that both countries are aware of, but are holding out on to see how long they can maintain a status quo that really is not in the interest of either.

"much in the way that the U.S. held sway in the West for the last 70 years, but with more menace."

I suspect 70 years ago that US "menace" was very much appreciated when it was fighting for 3.5 years pushing the Japanese back out of the Pacific and supplying the Chinese with arms and nateriel to fight the Japanese in China. I suspect the S. Koreans are very much grateful for that US menace which kept them out of the hands of the Kim family dictatorship in the North. I suspect the Japanese were very grateful for that US menace which having achieved total victory over them, decided to provide billions in aid to rebuild the country and establish it as a democracy rather then enslave them as the Japanese did to every population it conquered.

I mis-spoke.
Instead of 'the last 70 years," I should have written "the last 70 years--"
What I intended to say was that the Chinese ambition is to dominate Asia the way that the U.S. dominated the West, but the Chinese would do so 'with more menace'.
Thank you for the correction. My mis-use of punctuation changed the meaning entirely.

I suspect some of the issues between nations often comes from language issues. On my side I jumped so quickly to address the first issue that I didn't read the rest of your post in detail. Had I done so I may have suspected there was a disconnect in thought. My apologies for that.

I agree with most of what you say as a way forward. But as I noted in another post, I don't think China will feel comfortable with a unified democratic Korea friendly to the US right on its border. So that fear will keep them backing Kim until things get very unstable and thus could easily spin out of control. On the US side, free access to the seas is so vital to the US that it will transit areas it has no significant interest in just out of the principle that it has a right to transit those areas under international law. For example, in the 1980's when Libya's Qadafi claimed control of the Gulf of Sidra, US ships and aircraft immediately entered it to show they did not recognize his claim since it violated international law. The end result was Libyan Air Force aircraft coming out to enforce the Libyan claim and being shot down by US naval aircraft.

It's a tough situation with both sides being engaged for very different reasons and, in some ways, stuck with situations they'd prefer to be rid of.

If the US is as innocent as you make of them, there would have been no war after WW2. the US is in Korea for one and only one reason and that is to protect its interest and hegemony. The US is not interested in Korean unification nor peace in Korea. Now, tell me who still maintain troops in Korea? When did the last chinese PVF pulled out of Korea? if you cannot answer these 2 questions correctly, you no business commenting here.

America only intervened once it became convinced that Japan's brutalities in China would harm her own interests. They could care less about South Korean and Chinese civilians as evidenced by their sadistic massacres in the former and state-sponsored terrorism against Chinese civilians all around the world.

The United States is in Korea to ensure that the North Korean army remains in North Korea. As the world's largest economy and dominant power, it is of course in our interest to ensure world stability. It certainly wouldn't do us or anyone else any good to have the world's 15th largest economy taken over or destroyed by a childish despot.

Sadly, Beijing seems somehow clueless about how to deal with the problem of North Korea, which in reality is a threat to China more than it is to the US.

Signing the new UN resolution was a step in the right direction, but the question is does Beijing fully understand the severity of its own situation, and is the Chinese leadership divided about what needs to be done.

CHINA'S SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM OF THE SENKAKUS
AND THE SPRATLEY'S IN THE WESTERN PHILIPPINE SEA.
ACCORDING TO PRESIDENT XI JINPING, IS FOR JAPAN
TO MEET HIM HALF-WAY.
THAT MEANS LETS DIVIDE THE SENKAKUS INTO TWO
EQUAL PARTS. AS WELL AS FOR THE SPRATLEYS.
IRREGARDLESS WHO LEGALLY OWNS IT.

THE PHILIPPINE CLAIM IS BASE ON HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS AND MAPS OF THE SRI-VIJAYA EMPIRE AND THE MADJAPAJIT EMPIRE DATING BACK TO THE 700 AD.

GEOLOGICALLY THE SPRATLEYS IS PART OF THE PHILIPPINE SHELVES. AND THE UNITED NATION LAW
OF THE SEA OR UNCLOS.
UNDER THE ARCHIPILAGIC DOCTRINE, ALL ISLANDS ARE TAKEN AS ONE,WITH A TWO HUNDRED MILES ECONOMIC ZONE FROM ITS SHORE AND A 12 MILES EXCLUSIVE ZONE.

THE SENKAKUS IS PART OF THE OKINAWA CHAIN
OF ISLANDS. YOU TRACE THE POOP AND IT LEADS TO A SLEEPING DOG AND ITS OKINAWA. SEE THE DEEP SEA
SATELLITE IMAGES.

CHINA SHOULD BE KICK OUT OF THE U.N. SECURITY
COUNCIL BECAUSE ITS THE FIRST ONE WHO DOES NOT
RECOGNIZE THE UN LAWS.
FOR THEM IT IS 50/50.

(1)if you wish to rename the common name of a sea, please put it in bracket,eg. the (west phillippine sea) next to the official name - South China Sea, as it is universally known by the rest of the world. Else it is meaningless and creates confusion. (As a rule: Do not annoy your readers with your autocratic behavior).

(2) Matters pertaining to Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands is Japan's and Taiwan(Chinese)'s business. It does not need the great Philippines people to interfere. (You don't see Taiwanese people complaining about Philippinos maids creating social problems in Hong Kong, do you? This is because Taiwanese people do not believe that we have a right to take sides on the issue as we are outsiders.)

IF ALL OF HUMANITY ARE CHINESE, THEN I WILL
BE A DISGRACE TO THEM. TRY TELLING THAT TO
A JAPANESE OR TO MY FRIEND MIKE NGUYEN.
TELL THE TIBETAN PEOPLE THAT
I AM A DISGRACE TO HUMANITY. I AM PROTECTED
FROM ANY KARMA BY THE BLOOD OF MARTYRS,
THE HOLY MONKS OF TIBET WHO SET THEMSELVES
ON FIRE TO PROTEST THE LAND GRAB OF TIBET
BY CHINA. THIS IS A BATTLE OF DAVID AGAINST GOLIATH, OF GOOD AND EVIL, FOR TRUTH AND JUSTICE.. WE CAN NOT SIT IDLY BY, WHILE CHINESE COMMUNIST EVIL SPREAD.
IF WE LET THEM WE WILL FALL LIKE DOMINOES.THEY ARE DOING IT NOW WITH THE
SENKAKUS ,THE PARACEL ISANDS THE SPRATLEYS.
AS THEY HAD ALWAYS BEEN DOING IT WITH THE
BORDER WARS AGAINST INDIA AND RUSSIA.
THE GOD OF KARMA SEES WHO IS THE OPPRESSORS AND THE OPPRESSED.
KARMA IS COMING TO CHINA AND ITS LEADERS.
THEY WILL BE THE MOST DISGRACED CHINESE LEADERS IN THE HISTORY OF MODERN CHINA.
HU, WEN CHINA FOR CHINA? NO, IT IS WHO LOST
CHINA FOR CHINA. JINTAO AND JIABAO LOST CHINA
FOR CHINA.
THEY OPTED FOR THE MILITARY SOLUTION,BULLYING
AND INTIMIDATION. IT IS NOT EVEN TO DIVERT
THE ATTENTION OF THE CHINESE PEOPLE FROM THEIR PRESENT PLIGHT, WHICH IS THE GENERAL ASSUMPTIONS. THEY THROW IN THE RED MEAT, JAPAN. THE WHOLE CHINA ARE UP IN ARMS.
IT IS A CLASSIC MISDIRECTION .
THEY WANT TO DIVERT THE ATTENTION FROM WHAT THEY WERE DOING,IN THE NAME OF NATIONALISM. NOW, IT IS IN THE NEWS, IN TELEVISION AND NEWSPAPERS, IN THE WALL STREET JOURNAL AND THE NEW YORK TIMES HACKING SCANDAL. A SERIOUS
THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY OF ALL COUNTRIES.
NYT WAS INVESTIGATING MR. WEN JIABAO EXTENDED
FAMILY , OWNING BILLIONS OF DOLLARS.
JUSTICE WILL PREVAIL ONE DAY!

IF ALL OF HUMANITY ARE CHINESE, THEN I WILL BE A DISGRACE TO THEM. TRY TELLING THAT
TO A JAPANESE OR TO MY FRIEND, MR. NGUYEN.

TELL THAT TO THE TIBETAN PEOPLE OR THE
DALAI LAMA. I AM PROTECTED BY THE BLOOD OF MARTYRS FROM ANY KARMA. THE TIBETAN MONKS WHO SET THEMSELVES ON FIRE TO PROTEST THE LAND GRAB BY CHINA OF TIBET.
AS THEY ALWAYS HAD, THEY FOUGHT BORDER WARS WITH INDIA AND RUSSIA.
NOW, THEY ARE CLAIMING THE SENKAKUS, THE PARACELS AND THE SPRATLEYS.

THIS IS A STRUGGLE OF DAVID AGAINST GOLIATH,
OF GOOD AND EVIL, FOR TRUTH AND JUSTICE.
WE CAN NOT SIT IDLY BY, WATCH COMMUNIST EVIL
SPREAD. WE WILL ALL FALL LIKE DOMINOES.
THE GOD OF KARMA KNOWS WHO IS THE OPPRESSORS
AND THE OPPRESSED. KARMA WILL FALL ON CHINA AND ITS LEADERS.

HU, WEN CHINA FOR CHINA? NO, WHO LOST CHINA
FOR CHINA.
IT IS JINTAO AND JIABAO LOST CHINA FOR CHINA.
THEY WILL BE THE MOST DISGRACED LEADERS IN
THE HISTORY OF MODERN CHINA, ITS LEADERS
OPTED FOR THE MILITARY SOLUTION, OF BULLYING
AND INTIMIDATION. HISTORICALLY THEY COULD HAVE WON IT EASILY THROUGH THE ECONOMIC SOLUTION AS IN JAVA.

THERE IS A REASON FOR IT.
THEY THROW RED MEAT, JAPAN, ON ITS PEOPLE
AND EVERYBODY ARE UP IN ARMS. COMMON BELIEF
IS THAT THEY WANT TO DIVERT THE ATTENTION OF THE PEOPLE OF THEIR PAIN AND SUFFERING,
THE GROWING GAP BETWEEN RICH AND POOR.
PARTLY TRUE.

THIS IS A CLASSIC MISDIRECTION,
THEY WANT TO DIVERT THE ATTENTION FROM WHAT THEY WERE DOING, IN THE NAME OF CHINESE NATIONALISM AND TO DEFEND THE MOTHER LAND AGAINST JAPAN.

NOW , IT IS ALL OVER THE NEWSPAPER AND TELEVISION. THE WALL STREET JOURNAL AND THE
NEW YORK TIMES HAD BEEN HACKED.
THE NEW YORK TIMES HAS BEEN INVESTIGATING
THE EXTENDED FAMILY OF MR. WEN JIABAO OF
OWNING BILLIONS OF DOLLARS, THAT IS WHY THE
NYT GOT HACKED. THIS IS A SEROUS ISSUE WITH
NATIONAL SECURITY IMPLICATIONS, FOR ALL COUNTRIES.

I HONESTLY WISH THE PRESIDENT OF CHINA
SUCCESS IN HIS FIGHT AGAINST CORRUPTION.
JUSTICE WILL PREVAIL SOMEDAY.

Not sure the US is siding much with Iraq nowadays. Not sure what you mean by Afghanistan - its got a weak, corrupt government, that is being bullied by the Pakistanis.
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Now maybe our ties with Pakistan would fit that saying in the post above...?

NK a buffer between US forces in South Korea and China? Does anybody really think America is bent on attacking China and that strip of barren land that is North Korea is all that stands in its way? Utter nonsense.